This PhD project seeks to use the new PeatDataHub platform (https://peatdatahub.net/) to compile data from sites around the world in order to enable the successful student to interrogate datasets on water table and other hydrological properties to understand more about global peatland water-table dynamics.

In this project, the student will develop cutting-edge distributional models of dominant ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungal species across Europe and establish vital practice and policy recommendations for the monitoring, management and conservation of these ecologically critical organisms.

The Thames basin is very densely populated, containing one fifth of the UK population. It floods regularly, and climate change projections suggest that flooding will increase over the coming century, with 15,000 homes being at risk of inundation within the lower reaches of the catchment.

Do you care about nature? Do you care about your health and the health of others? - Then you care about SOIL. Soils are crucial components of our world; being the basis for food production, water and nutrients.